Hailed as “stunning” for her performance as the Baker’s Wife in Saint Petersburg Opera’s production of Sondheim’s Into The Woods (BroadwayWorld), “sultry and amber-voiced” as Mercédès in Regina Opera’s Carmen (Brooklyn Daily Eagle), a “true embodiment of the role” in her performance as Madame Flora in Opera Manhattan’s The Medium (OperaTeen), as well as “providing good-natured puffery as Mrs. Malaprop” in Kirke Mechem’s The Rivals (NY Times), other recent credits include Augusta Tabor in Douglas Moore’s The Ballad of Baby Doe, Alice Ford in Ralph Vaughan Williams’ Sir John in Love, the title role in Carmen with Delaware Valley Opera, Madame de Haltière in Utopia Opera’s Cendrillon, the title role in Bronx Opera’s La Cenerentola, Mother Goose in Stravinski’s The Rake’s Progress, Dido in Dido and Aeneas, Mercédès in Saint Petersburg Opera’s production of Carmen, Florence Pike in Albert Herring, Isabella in L’Italiana in Algeri, Jo March in Little Women, Ulrica in Un ballo in maschera, Dalila in Samson et Dalila, Miss Pooder in Pasatieri’s Hotel Casablanca, Adalgisa in Norma, Lola in Cavalleria rusticana, Dorabella in Così fan tutte, and Maddalena in Delaware Valley Opera’s Rigoletto. Past roles include Mary (Der fliegende Holländer), Olga (Eugene Onegin), Cornelia (Giulio Cesare in Egitto), The Third Lady (Die Zauberflöte), Dame Quickly (Falstaff), Idamante (Idomeneo), and The Muse/Nicklausse (Les Contes d’Hoffmann). Caroline recently received a Master’s Degree in Music – Vocal Performance from The Boston Conservatory, and is a student of Lenora Eve.  View Resume PDF

TRAINING & EDUCATION

Opera Breve Vocal Intensive – Opera Breve
Master of Music in Vocal Performance – The Boston Conservatory
Summer Intensive Program, Italian – Accademia Europea  (Firenze, Italia)
Bachelor of Science in Theater – Skidmore College
Shakespeare Programme – British American Drama Academy

“Nothing short of spectacular… Caroline Tye, playing The Baker’s Wife, has a supple mezzo-soprano voice that fills the room. Their duet on ‘It Takes Two’ is shiver-inducing.”

– Bill DeYoung, CL Tampa, on Into The Woods

“The radiant mezzo Caroline Tye… sang superbly with excellent diction and enviable control of the embellishments… [Her] skill at bel canto singing was impressive.”

– Vocedimeche.net, on L’Italiana in Algeri

“Mezzo Caroline Tye made for a funny, though not ridiculous, Mrs. Malaprop, with a warm mezzo as well as the good diction that is central to the success of this role.”

– BWW World, on The Rivals

“Caroline Tye as Mrs. Nolan… was outstanding… her reaction to hearing what she believed to be her daughter’s voice was captivating in its heart-breaking realness.”

– Steven Jude Tietjen, on The Medium